Peeling knife



March 3, 1-931.

J. T. BEECHLYN FEELING KNIFE Filed Oct 27, 1927 I may be effected by a spot welding operation, The disposition of this scooplike section is Patentcd MarQB 1931 a v a i STATES PATE T OF FEELING KNIFE vApplication filed October 27,1927, Serial No. 229,248.;

This invention relates to knives for paring blade is approximately-inthe form of an-arc fruits and vegetables, and,'while it has generof a cylinder-with its axis transverse to the al usefulness in this class, it is particularly axis of the handle. i adapted to potato paring. In Fig. 2 is shownfthe extreme thinness 5 The objects of the invention are to provide of peels cutby the improved blade." I am a knife, which, by a special contour of its aware that curved blades have before this blade will permit speedy and economic parbeen applied to certain forms of knives, paring'of the materials in question, and which ticularly in connection with citrous fruit. at the same time will be facile in operation In such knives, however, it has been customg 10 by virtue of proper disposition of the cutting ary to join the blade to the handle at a point sections of the blade with relation to the axis lying substantially in the axis of the latter; of the handle; to provide a knife which may AS a consequence theefi'ectivecenter Of such 1 easily be kept in a sanitary condition and Curved blades has-been situateddistinctly suspended when not in use, and to provide outside the axis ofthe handle, resulting in a J a construction which can be inexpensively torsional moment exerted-on the latter, when manufactured with a very slight waste. the knife is put to use; g a I Other objects and advantages of the inven- I It Is a particular object of the present contion will appear h i ft structlon to obtain a condition where the Ref rence i to b had t the a co panyi g Y chief cutting sections ofthe blade will lie sub 20 d i i hi h 'stantially in'Or near the axis of the handle.

Fig, 1 is a perspective iew howing a pre- In this way the efiiciency Of operation is pIO- ferred form of the knife; and 1 moted.

Fig. 2 is a sectional View thereof, showing further advantage resulting from termiit a li ti i paring an l natlng the cutt ng edge at the lower extrem 535 The handle is-formed from a metallic tri ity of the handle on the side of little curvature 10, slightly channeled, or concaved along the 0f he lade, hes in the fact that in paring a inside, and bent in the form of. an elongated Curved Object the handle, and thereby the loop. At one extremity the ends are bent to hand f he op rator, may be brought closer overlap, and at this point 11 the arc of the to the rk, a d i this Way r a V 30 channel is preferably reversed to make it able leverage obtained. 7 concave outside. Between the overlapping o facilitate theparing of small areas hav- 7 nds is ur d, as b i t 12, th u t d 1ng llttle curvature, asfound in manyvegeh k 142 f th k ifeb1 d 1'3 Th j i i tables, especially potatoes, the curvature of f th v l layers f t l athis point the blade is reversed nearits free end, at 15.

or,'as'shown in the drawing, the fasteningmay suchvas to bring its effective center substanbe secured by means of the rivet 12, with the .tially in the axis of the knife. curvedform of thejoined sections providing Although Ihave illustrated and described an effective lock against any torsional disonlytwo formsof the invention 1 am aware placement. of thefact that otherjmodifications can help? From the point of junction with the lower made therein by any person skilled in the art 1 side of the handle, which occurs at the exwithout departing "from the-scope of the increme edge of the handle,'the free-portion of vention as expressed in the'claims. There- 7' i the bladeis curved upward and forward in fore, I do not wish to be limitedin these re-' 45 the general direction of the'longitudinal axis spects but what I do claim is of the handle. This portion forms the chief 1'. As an article of manufacture, a peeling I in cutting section of the blade which, by its conknife comprising a blade and a handle, the]? tour,'is well adapted to the paring of genhandle being formed by a metallic strip bent erally convex areas, with a minimum loss of into an elongated loop with ends overlapping 0 useful material. The central part of the at one extremity, and the butt end of the blade bent substantially at right angles to the cut ting portion and fastened between the aforesaid overlapping ends of the handle.

2. As an article of manufacture, a peeling 5 knife comprising a blade and a handle, the handle being formed by a metallic strip bent into a loop with the free ends overlapping V andconcaved and the butt end of the blade bent substantially at right angles to the cutting portion, concaved like said ends, and entering between said overlapping ends" and fastened therein.

3. As an article of manufacture, a peeling knife comprising a handle formed of a metallie strip, said strip being in the general form of a rectangle, the two ends of the strip overlapping toward each other fromopposite sides and a blade, the tang of the blade extending into the space between the overlap ping ends and secured therebetween and the blade extending therefrom in a general longitudinal direction.

4. As an article of marmfacture a peeling knife comprising a blade and a handle, the 28 blade having its inner end entering" one end of the handletransversely to the axis of the handle at a point at one side of the handle 7 and secured thereon, the middle portion of the blade being concave on the side toward 30 said point and lying in a plane near said axis and having a reverse curvature near its free end for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto af fixed my signature.

JOHN T. BEECHLYN. 

